Mikhail Borodin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mikhail Borodin

Comintern agent

Date of Birth: 09-Jul-1884

Place of Birth: Yanovichi, Belarus

Date of Death: 29-May-1951

Profession: politician, diplomat, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Mikhail Borodin

  • Mikhail Markovich Gruzenberg, known by the alias Borodin (9 July 1884 – 29 May 1951), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist International (Comintern) agent.
  • He was an advisor to Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang (KMT) in China during the 1920s. Born in a rural part of the Russian Empire (now Belarus), to a Jewish family, Borodin joined the General Jewish Labour Bund at age sixteen, and then the Bolsheviks in 1903.
  • After being arrested for participating in revolutionary activities, Borodin fled to America, attended Valparaiso University, started a family, and later established an English school for Russian Jewish immigrants in Chicago.
  • Upon the success of the October Revolution in 1917, Borodin returned to Russia, and served in various capacities in the new Soviet government.
  • From 1919, he served as an agent of the Comintern, travelling to various countries to spread the Bolshevik revolutionary cause.
  • In 1923, Vladimir Lenin picked Borodin to lead a Comintern mission to China, where he was tasked with aiding Sun Yat-sen and his Kuomintang.
  • Following Sun's death, Borodin assisted in the planning of the Northern Expedition, and later became an integral backer of the KMT leftist government in Wuhan. Following a purge of communists from the Kuomintang, Borodin was forced to return to the Soviet Union in 1927, where he would remain for the rest of his life.
  • He once again served in various positions within the Soviet government, and later helped found the English-language Moscow News newspaper, of which he would become the editor-in-chief.
  • During the Second World War, he additionally served as editor-in-chief of the Soviet Information Bureau.
  • Amidst rising antisemitism in the Soviet Union during the late 1940s, Borodin was arrested, and deported to a prison camp.
  • He died in 1951, and was officially rehabilitated in 1964.

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